... The Uncertainty Principle of Beauty. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Actually, I still like Hermann Hesse, if only for the thrill his books gave me when I first discovered them (when I was studying German in college and before the craze began) - and also whenever I listen to Strauss's Four Last Songs.
I've certainly gotten much pleasure from Hesse, and when a reading space opens I'll read The Glass Bead Game again, in translation, I'm afraid. While on the subject of German writers, have you read Mann's Dr Faustus, Frank, which I might give a read in a while. Perhaps on somewhat similar ground at the moment with Burgess' Eartly Powers which I seem to remember you rating very highly. Rightly so. My only gripe 200 pages in being when Burgess allows himself what are to me, ill-judged and somewhat tedious Joycean lapses.
ReplyDeleteI do think Earthly Powers is a great novel - and I don't recall any Joycean passages in it. But I reviewed when it came out many years ago, so memory may not serve.
ReplyDeleteI have not read Dr. Faustus though I hope to some day.
The Joycean passages are thankfully rather sparse, and somewhat half-hearted...just a foray in the stream of consciousness type thing every now and again. A bit out of place but no big deal.
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